Chi McBride Quotes
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive….The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.
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What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.
